Quotes About Athlete

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.

I'll be peeing like a champion in no time

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

Michael Jordan always had to wear University of North Carolina boxer shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform.

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Soda pop, he declared, was as bad as alcohol or cigarettes for an athlete, and he vowed never to touch them.

Everything that happens inside the cage is very quick and the fighter acts more by reflex than by reasoning.

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.

I don't care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as a positive influence, to let kids know we are regular people.

I am footballer, not a public relations person.

I'm an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I've got good footwork.